Tube City Almanac

April 02, 2008

What a Ham!

Category: History || By


I'm a little late with this, but in my defense, Easter came early this year. (Yeah, excuses, excuses.)

It strikes me that the kind of people who read Tube City Almanac will also enjoy seeing photos of the displays at the G.C. Murphy Co. store in Wheeling, W.Va., in March 1958 --- a half-century ago.

They're now up on the G.C. Murphy Memories website.

Note that worries about inflation and recessions are nothing new. The sign in the lower-right corner says "Our Prices Are Still Low." The country was in the midst of a severe recession that year, which was exacerbated because prices actually went up, instead of down.






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